Expecting more than 50,000 people to attend an outdoor festival in your area? Main street in town going to be shut down, other streets closed off and parking a nightmare? Sure, we’re prepared, we sent an ambulance to do a standby. As an attendee of various festivals, events and gatherings in September for Kilted […]

For as long as the nine magical letters on the side of the rig have existed there has always been a debate about when a person is “A&O” and when they are able to make decisions. There are also stories, terrible stories from the Anchors (Those in EMS so long who refuse to evolve and […]

A few of you have sent messages about the weird post I put up completely in what Google Translate calls French. It was an apology to a person I couldn’t communicate with. Emails to me said, “I can’t understand what you’re trying to say” and ” Why not just tell us what you wanted to […]

Officer Unclear on the Concept strikes again. Dispatched to a diabetic male, unable to walk. On arrival witnesses state a man seemed tired and has now walked over 100 meters. When they finally caught up with the tired looking man he was accompanied by a police officer. “What seems to be the trouble tonight […]

A little bit of effort goes a long way. I recently had the opportunity of tending to a fellow who tripped over a suitcase being pulled by someone in a hurry. He took a tumble and broke a finger. It hurt like hell and we did our best to get him comfortable, recommending a trip […]

Like many of the man children in the world I too downloaded Pokemon GO to see what all the fuss was about. The idea seems OK, you go around trying to pick up creatures from random places, then try to find large arenas where you can compare yours to others. My, God…we already play this […]

One of the things I hate most about EMS is apathy. A provider who has checked out mentally and simply no longer cares is far, far worse than one who simply doesn’t show up. I recall having a driver on the ambulance back in the day who simply didn’t care. Slamming doors, mumbling under […]

From outer space! I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face, I should have changed that stupid lock I should have … what? Are we not in a singing mood? Fresh off a 2 week wandering of the coast of Alaska your Pal Happy is back in […]

Hey gang, This is one of those blogger break notifications we use from time to time to step away from the keyboard and gather our thoughts. You may have noticed that over the last year or so my thoughts have been fewer and far between here at HMHQ and that was because I was […]